I say have you say tem: profiling verbs in children data in English and Portuguese

Authors:
Rodrigo Wilkens;Aline Villavicencio
Affiliations:
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Venue:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Language Acquisition and Loss
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In this paper we present a profile of verb usage across ages in child-produced sentences in English and Portuguese. We examine in particular lexical and syntactic characteristics of verbs and find common trends in these languages as children's ages increase, such as the prominence of general and polysemic verbs, as well as divergences such as the proportion of subject dropping. We also find a correlation between the age of acquisition and the number of complements of a verb for English.